A review by sarikam
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden

4.0

An intimate look at our former Vice President and how he and his family deal with his son's battle with cancer. In the background are geopolitical events such as the fight against ISIL in Iraq and supporting Ukraine against Russia's advances. A particularly beautiful part of the book highlights his comforting a family of a police officer killed in NYC which is then mirrored later on in the book when that family comes to grieve with him when Biden loses his son. Biden highlights the human connections that form between us. One minor thing he appropriately calls attention to is the need for seamless collaboration between physicians in healthcare, how the system often impedes the sharing of data - a step we should look into correcting if we hope to achieve the moonshot of curing cancer.